The Gods of Kansas, The Gods of Kansas

Do you like your beer cold? Do you like your chicks hot? Do you like to pump your fist out the window of your bitchin’ ’79 Camaro when Judas Priest comes on the radio? If you answered “yes,” to any of those questions, then The Gods of Kansas are for you.

It’s a shame The Gods of Kansas don’t have a time machine a la Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, so they could go back to the ’80s and make it big. Despite how talented they are and how hard they rock, the basic fact is that The Gods of Kansas are 20 years too late; the kids these days are into being pussies, not into rocking out. A track like “Don’t Touch the Radio” would’ve been an instant radio hit, and one like “Oh! The Magic” would’ve been a stadium rock mainstay back in the day. Despite the fact that The Gods of Kansas aren’t going to be selling out stadiums, they can at least have the satisfaction of knowing it’s their CD being played by the dudes who beat up emo kids at the mall. Rock on…